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Re: DíSouza Is Spared Prison Time for Campaign Finance Violations

Madoff put people in the poorhouse by stealing their life's savings. that is malum per se. what DD did is malum prohibitum

meaning it is illegal because laws are passed saying its illegal-not because it is objectively wrong

for people like Madoff, the best punishment is to impoverish them and force them to spend the rest of their years on earth working off what they took from other. Madoff is brilliant so he can use his intelligence to help enrich those he cheated

as to DD-its a stupid law that should not exist in the first place

TD, for decades, he operated a successful Ponzi Scheme. That is where his brilliance lies, being a smooth talking criminal.

A person familiar with the situation said investigators believe Mr. Madoff initially had a trading strategy that failed, and that he had made very few, if any, stock or options trades for clients over the years. Instead, the operation consisted of taking money in from new clients and paying it out to existing clients, said people familiar with the matter.

I don't attack my constituents. Bob is my constituent now.
This is the important stuff. We canít get lost in discrimination. We canít get lost in B.S. We canít get lost tearing each other down. I want to make a point here that no matter what you look like, where you come from, how you worship, who you love, how you identify, and yeah, how you run, that if you have good public policy ideas, if you are well qualified for office, bring those ideas to the table, because this is your America, too. This is our commonwealth of Virginia, too.

Danica Roem - The nation's first openly transgender person elected to serve in a U.S. state legislature.

Re: DíSouza Is Spared Prison Time for Campaign Finance Violations

Originally Posted by TurtleDude

prison should be reserved for violent types

one does not have to be violent to be a menace to society

working off their debt to society for scam artists like Madoff makes more sense. A guy with his intellect can LEGITIMATELY make 200-300 K a year. so have him do that and take 80% of it for the victims rather than spending 40K a year on him in prison

hell no
he did the crime
make him pay
with the most precious commodity on earth: time

we are negotiating about dividing a pizza and in the meantime israel is eating it ​

Re: DíSouza Is Spared Prison Time for Campaign Finance Violations

Originally Posted by Cardinal

Here's how that Fox interview would have gone down if D'Souza had character and was not, in fact, a low-character ****weasel:

Kelly: "So, Mr. D'Souza, looks like you were caught being a bad boy."
D'Souza: "Yup, it certainly appears that way."
Kelly: "But wouldn't you say that you were being unfairly targeted?"
D'Souza: "Kelly, I don't know, maybe I was, maybe I wasn't, but let's not try to change the subject. The point is I broke the law and I'm paying the price for it. That's it."
Kelly: "Yes, but-"
D'Souza: "Kelly, there is no 'but.' I knew what I did was illegal and I got busted. That's it. Here's the thing you really need to remember here: if I hadn't committed a crime, I wouldn't be here right now."
Kelly: "But the prosecutor-"
D'Souza: "Kelly, just stop. Let me reiterate: If I hadn't committed this crime, I'd be home right now binging on Orange is the New Black, because I have absolutely terrible taste in television."
Kelly: "......"
D'Souza: "......"
Kelly: "Um..."
D'Souza: "Yyyyup."
Kelly: "Okay, um...Dinesh D'Souza, everybody. We'll return after these messages."

Re: DíSouza Is Spared Prison Time for Campaign Finance Violations

We'll have to agree to disagree. He has nothing to offer to society in the manner which you have suggested. No skills to turn towards the public good.

What the authorities have recovered in terms of "his" assets, can't make everyone whole again. Including charities and foundations, so I'm good with him being locked up.

I don't attack my constituents. Bob is my constituent now.
This is the important stuff. We canít get lost in discrimination. We canít get lost in B.S. We canít get lost tearing each other down. I want to make a point here that no matter what you look like, where you come from, how you worship, who you love, how you identify, and yeah, how you run, that if you have good public policy ideas, if you are well qualified for office, bring those ideas to the table, because this is your America, too. This is our commonwealth of Virginia, too.

Danica Roem - The nation's first openly transgender person elected to serve in a U.S. state legislature.